From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/24] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: Remove call to memset after dmam_alloc_coherent
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:10:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee011ef9-fe02-8fea-b34d-cb7628abac19@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ea5f97f-5963-5836-6ab2-dc30628c6820@arm.com>
On 7/16/2019 7:35 AM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 15/07/2019 16:17, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 7/15/2019 1:43 AM, Fuqian Huang wrote:
>>> Should I rewrite the commit log? Just mention that dma_alloc_coherent
>>> has already
>>> zeroed the memory and not to reference the commit?
>>
>> I'd like to hear from Robin Murphy that arm smmu driver follows this as
>> well.
>
> I'd be lying if I said it did.
>
> ...but only because that's never been part of the SMMU driver's
> responsibility either way. The iommu-dma layer however, and thus the
> respective arm64 iommu_dma_ops, has always zeroed allocations right from
> its inception.
>
> 518a2f1925c3 was just cleaning up the last of the stragglers which
> *weren't* already clearing buffers anyway, such that we could formalise
> that behaviour into the API.
Thanks for confirming the behavior for arm64 arch.
Acked-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-16 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-15 3:17 [PATCH v3 04/24] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: Remove call to memset after dmam_alloc_coherent Fuqian Huang
2019-07-15 4:17 ` Sinan Kaya
2019-07-15 5:43 ` Fuqian Huang
2019-07-15 15:17 ` Sinan Kaya
2019-07-16 11:35 ` Robin Murphy
2019-07-16 15:10 ` Sinan Kaya [this message]
2019-08-08 12:22 ` Vinod Koul
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